Lukashenko Alexander

Alexander Grigoryevich Lukashenko (born 30 or 31 August 1954) became President of Belarus on 20 July 1994. Before his career as a politician, Lukashenko worked as director of a state-owned agricultural farm and spent time with the Soviet Border Troops and the Red Army. When he first entered politics, he was seen as a champion against corruption and was the only deputy to vote against the independence of Belarus from the Soviet Unio Болей »

Special Jewish Issue

This special Jewish issue of Belarusian Review is the result of a project combining the efforts of “Belarusian
Review,” its online platform The_Point Journal, the Goldstein-Goren Diaspora Research Center at Tel Aviv
University, and the Center for Belarusian Studies at the Southwestern College in Winfield, KS. Болей »

Volume 25, No. 1

Last several years have witnessed a noticeable decline of interest in Belarus by Western media and politicians. This is understandable in the era of Arab Spring revolutions. The December 2010 Lukašenka regime’s crackdown on opposition was the last turbulent event, recorded in Belarus. What worries me more is the Western medias’ continuing tendency to regard Belarus as a post-Soviet ”Russophone” country, with no language and culture of i... Болей »

Volume 24, No. 4

Recent events about the historical publication Arche,мand also about Hrodnaznaŭstva, actually reflect the fight between two views - what kind of country should Belarus be ? Intellectuals, clustered in non-governmental civic structures, present a European Belarus, while the head of state and his entourage see Belarus as a Eurasian country. They are resisting the European trend by all means. True, they are not destroying it physically, as... Болей »

Volume 24, No. 3

Belarus can hardly be described as a country which attracts much attention from international scholars and analysts. Despite this fact all Belarus-related studies and analyses may roughly be described as those produced within a so-called “triadic nexus” that consists of Belarusian authors, foreign authors who focus on Belarus, and the authors who come from Belarusians living abroad, either from indigenous minorities in the neighboring c... Болей »

Volume 24, No. 2

I remember a math problem from my school years: how much time would it take Z to get from point A to point C, traveling through point B. This was quite a simple task but one has to correctly consider the conditions given in order to get the proper answer. In other words, the correct answer depends on the configuration of points A, B, and C, the speed and other characteristics of Z, as well as other relevant factors. Болей »

Volume 24, No. 1

In recent years, Belarus and Kazakhstan are being further involved in the Russia-backed integration project known under labels of the Eurasian Economic Community, the Customs Union, the newly (re)created Common Economic Space and finally the prospective Eurasian Union. Leadership in all three countries considers this integration project as the most promising foreign policy initiative, though many observers and political commentators we... Болей »

Volume 20, No. 1

“The United States of America, the Russian Federation and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland reaffirm their commitment to the Republic of Belarus, in accordance with the Principles of the CSCE Final Act, to refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by the Republic of Belarus of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind. Болей »